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The
World Resources Institute, in collaboration with partners
in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yunnan, China, has
recently released a publication entitled Environment, Livelihoods,
and Local Institutions: Decentralization in Mainland Southeast
Asia by Mairi Dupar and Nathan Badenoch (Washington D.C.:
World Resources Institute, 2002).
Environment,
Livelihoods, and Local Institutions provides an overview
of decentralized development planning and natural resources
management in the region. The report assesses the conditions
under which decentralization reforms have promoted secure
rural livelihoods and sound natural resource stewardship.
The authors find that even the most cautious forms of decentralization
they documented led to more appropriate natural resource management
decisions than before, as when local authorities increased
community consultation within a framework of administrative
reform. However, to provide the best chances of improved livelihood
security and environmentally sustainable development, decentralization
must incorporate a range of innovations.
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